Sweetbreads on mushroom (morel) risotto. Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.weetbreads on mushroom (morel) risotto. Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.
White Russian (plural White Russians) ( 1 history) a White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917â1923), and afterward. (Russian history) ( 2 obsolete) A Belarusian person. 3  A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the first mention of the word White Russian in the sense of a cocktail as appearing in California's Oakland Tribune on November 21, 1965. It was placed in the newspaper as an insert: White Russian.